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Raises some very interesting points, especially towards the end.. (look! a link from redrum that's not to a youtube!) |
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hes right about the fact that music companies sell 90% of their music on CD so DRM is a pretty pointless way to stop piracy. i can imagine in 20 years itll be a different story but for now DRM just seems stupid. |
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DRM on music is balls. Like most copy protection, it offers little real security and just inconveniences legitimate users (further encouraging them to use the piracy method). No, I'm not a pirate. Less than a few hours ago, I spent over £100 on music, almost all of which I could of DLed instead. |
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Didnt Bill Gates say this same shit a few months ago? Instead of simply blaming the record labels like Steve Jobs, Gates atleast offered a solution and recommended buying your own cds and ripping them. |
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hopefully the big four will listen this time. |
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slk |
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and i quote: Through the end of 2006, customers purchased a total of 90 million iPods and 2 billion songs from the iTunes store. On average, that’s 22 songs purchased from the iTunes store for each iPod ever sold. Today’s most popular iPod holds 1000 songs, and research tells us that the average iPod is nearly full. This means that only 22 out of 1000 songs, or under 3% of the music on the average iPod, is purchased from the iTunes store and protected with a DRM. The remaining 97% of the music is unprotected and playable on any player that can play the open formats. Its hard to believe that just 3% of the music on the average iPod is enough to lock users into buying only iPods in the future. And since 97% of the music on the average iPod was not purchased from the iTunes store, iPod users are clearly not locked into the iTunes store to acquire their music. BULLSHIT retorics, thats like saying 'on average a person commits 0.0017 murders during his life, which essentially means no murders at all, let's close all prisons. no wait not like saying that at all. near the end he's making a lot of sense, however. |
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i think your analogy is bullshit rhetorics. totally different points. |
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The only music website I pay to download from is emusic. There is no DRM on any of the tracks, it's really good value and all the tracks are VBR. Itunes has a really poor bit rate for its downloads (128kps) considering you pay about £8 for an album. I could buy the album for that on Amazon, rip it and resell it on eBay a week later if I really wanted to. And do. |
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